Constant Contact Blogs

This Week’s Free Webinars: 5/21 – 5/25

Heidi Tobias — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:00:55 +0000

Have you been wondering how you can take your email marketing, event marketing, social media campaigns and local deals and kick them up a notch? If you’ve been looking for some tips, tricks and best practices, make sure to check out one of these live webinars! Tuesday, 5/22 1. Email Marketing: How to Get Started [...]

Facebook Finds a Number to “Like” for an IPO. And Other Hot Topics.

Ryan Pinkham — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:30:36 +0000

$38. That’s the price that Facebook has set for each of the 421,233,615 shares it plans to sell as part of the company’s initial public offering today. Normally, we would have teased the number in the intro, but after a rollercoaster four months of hype and speculation, we thought you had suffered through enough. But [...]

LinkedIn Buys Slideshare: Good News for Small Business? [Speakeasy #4]

Dave Charest — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:30:26 +0000

What’s in this episode? 16 minutes of social media awesome! 1. This week’s news topic: LinkedIn Buys SlideShare: Good News for Small Business? 2. Questions/topics we discuss: How do I use Facebook to influence people to contact me about my custom products? Are Facebook fans allowed to post images on your Page? Is there ever [...]

3 Tips For Designing The Perfect Event Invitation

Ryan Pinkham — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:30:22 +0000

How do you plan the perfect event to help your customers plan the perfect day? That was the question that Joe Dusewicz of Green Gates Gifts, Furniture & Accessories, a gift boutique in Gloucester Point, Virginia, had to answer when he was planning the business’s annual Wedding Showcase. “This Wedding Showcase is our biggest event [...]

5 Ways to Make the Most of National Small Business Week

Rick Jensen — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:00:46 +0000

There’s nothing like the excitement around National Small Business Week. It inspires you to reconnect with your network, jumpstart fresh campaigns and reach out to potential new customers and partners. Along with this, you have a mini marketing army, courtesy of the Small Business Administration (SBA), which is creating greater awareness for the small business [...]

Master Your Time with a Master Email Template

TiAn Vetter — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:30:30 +0000

Throughout my first year at Constant Contact, I worked very closely with hundreds of our customers, and it didn’t matter if I was speaking with people who needed help with their very first email or if it was someone calling in who’d been doing this for years. Often, they’d ask me the same question when [...]

How Green Should You Make Your Event?

Mary Crogan — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:30:56 +0000

This is a guest post by Howard Givner, Executive Director, the Event Leadership Institute. Four years ago I attended an amazing keynote presentation at an industry conference by the head of marketing of Vitamin Water. Aside from being a charismatic speaker, he blew people away with some of the wicked cool marketing campaigns they’ve done [...]

Ask an Expert: How to Get More Publicity in Just Minutes a Day

Ryan Pinkham — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:17:20 +0000

In case you haven’t heard, the media landscape is changing … and that’s great news for small businesses. But how do you take advantage of these changes to generate more publicity for your business? I sat down with Dave Gerhardt, communications specialist at Constant Contact, to discuss some of the ways small businesses can best [...]

Online Events Just Got Easier: Bringing Online Meetings and Webinars Under the Event Management Umbrella

Christopher M. Litster — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:30:22 +0000

One of the great things about working at Constant Contact is that I have the regular opportunity of ‘getting out there’ to speak with owners of small businesses and directors of nonprofit organizations. It helps me understand what they are worried about, how they feel about various aspects of their business, and what they believe [...]

How to Use YouTube, Email, and Facebook to Make $10,000

Blaise Lucey — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:30:20 +0000

Have you ever wanted to see a trumpet thrown off the back of a car going sixty miles an hour? What about a trumpet holding up an entire car? Well, you can. More specifically, you can see just how well Torpedo Bags protect trumpets from this kind of trauma. That’s the whole point of the [...]